Hello,
Newegg is having a sale on the MSI P55-GD85 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 30261-L09C And I need to change my mobo as it's been finicky the last couple of weeks. I'm looking for SataIII and usb 3 too. I was wondering if anyone has this board, or the vanilla version GD80? And any thoughts on compatibility? A comparison of the boards http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productco ... 130-261-TS

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Core i5 750 - Gigabyte P55m UD2 - MSI GTS 250 TwinFrozr OC edition - 2x WD Black 640GB - 2x Hitachi Deskstar 1TB - OCZ Gold 4GB 1333 - Lite-on 24X DVD+R - OCZ Fatal1ty 550w - OSX 10.6.3, W7 Pro x64, Ubuntu 10.04 x64

After some poking around the interwebs I found that the MSI P55-GD85 is apparently an amped up version of the MSI P55-GD65, same audio (Realtek ALC889) same ethernet (Realtek 8111DL) with the addition of an extra 8 PCI-E lanes and USB 3 and SATA III. I searched this site and found a few people with the GD65 working with sleep as a possible problem. Does this mean the GD85 will be usable?

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Core i5 750 - Gigabyte P55m UD2 - MSI GTS 250 TwinFrozr OC edition - 2x WD Black 640GB - 2x Hitachi Deskstar 1TB - OCZ Gold 4GB 1333 - Lite-on 24X DVD+R - OCZ Fatal1ty 550w - OSX 10.6.3, W7 Pro x64, Ubuntu 10.04 x64

GD65 working like a charm, everything but sleep. Not sure about firewire - cause have no such devices.

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MSI P55-GD65, i5 750 3.2, 1600 2x2 Muskin DDR3, HIS HD5850, Asus Xonar Essence ST
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Right now work everything but sleep and Essence ST